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Syrian refugees threaten lawsuit over food at Ballagh centre

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  • #32
    retro:electro
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    "If you don't like it then fcuk back to Syria" is such a lazy and ignorant response. They can be grateful for the refuge and still want food quality standards improved. I know I wouldn't want to eat shlt if I had to flee my home and I'd make damned sure my voice was heard.


  • #33
    falinn merking
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    anna080 wrote: »
    "If you don't like it then fcuk back to Syria" is such a lazy and ignorant response. They can be grateful for the refuge and still want food quality standards improved. I know I wouldn't want to eat shlt if I had to flee my home and I'd make damned sure my voice was heard.

    I have changed my opinion from my first gut reaction on reading this thread.
    I agree bad food can cause depression and ill health.


  • #34
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    Verpiss dich wrote: »
    I was on a Fas course many years ago and if their food is as bad as what the canteen served up back then you may have a point.

    I often went hungry at those things years ago, same with school trips, absolute slop unless it was greasy chips. And we came from a very modest diet of spuds and meat, nothing fancy at home.


  • #35
    falinn merking
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    riffmongous wrote: »
    I often went hungry at those things years ago, same with school trips, absolute slop unless it was greasy chips. And we came from a very modest diet of spuds and meat, nothing fancy at home.

    Show off it was fish fingers or fried eggs on many of my childhood dinners.:D


  • #36
    mikeysmith
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    Prob being served up slops and no oversight


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  • #37
    JenovaProject
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    Odhinn wrote: »
    You might note that IS became prominent some years after the war started...

    Oh sorry it was al-Qaida affiliates they fled from.
    Not Assad or Isis.


  • #38
    Mutant z
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    The situation in Syria has stabilised surely they can all return home.


  • #39
    MilesMorales1
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    Even refugees don't wanna eat coddle, I sympathise. Thats a human rights violation right there.


  • #40
    SuperSean11
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    If only there was some sort of camp where they could do manual labour and be fed and housed.

    Whats auschwitz in Irish?


  • #41
    Are Am Eye
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    Possibly a bit of commumication and common sense migjt have resolved this before it went to legal threats. They probably juzt want the food they're used to from back home. If the kitchen staff in conjunction with a few knowledgeable syrians could come up with a some syrian dishes and recipies to add to the rotation and everyones happy.


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  • #42
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    Verpiss dich wrote: »
    Show off it was fish fingers or fried eggs on many of my childhood dinners.:D

    Hehe, well they went under the category of meat for us too :D Tinned salmon as well, and maybe a tin of beans


  • #43
    falinn merking
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    SuperSean11 wrote: »
    If only there was some sort of camp where they could do manual labour and be fed and housed.

    Whats auschwitz in Irish?

    Croagh Patrick retreat.


  • #44
    donegaLroad
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    kylith wrote: »
    Talking to some refugees; the food in those places is sh!te. A lot of them would have been used to cooking for themselves and are now not only in a situation where they're not allowed to cook, they're being served greasy, deep-fried yuk on a daily basis.

    probably pork on a daily basis, Irish breakfast, sausage and chips for dinner, bacon butties in the evening.. for people who don't eat pork, this must be a problem.. Im just guessing


  • #45
    JenovaProject
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    Jacqueline Mullen, the centre manager, says the complaint was baseless and was written solely as a means of the refugees securing permanent accommodation elsewhere.

    Think people are missing this bit.
    They are only looking for free permanent housing.
    The foods not the problem.


  • #46
    SuperSean11
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    Verpiss dich wrote: »
    Croagh Patrick retreat.

    Was thinking more the green woops i mean long mile road


  • #47
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    SuperSean11 wrote: »
    If only there was some sort of camp where they could do manual labour and be fed and housed.

    Whats auschwitz in Irish?

    We had our own workhouses years ago, most prominently during the famine times. I doubt anyone wants a return to that


  • #48
    wakka12
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    johnnyskeleton wrote: »
    The Syrian refugees? They cant go home because they havent got homes, anymore.

    Surely if their situation was that dire then the hotel food not being what they want wouldn't be such a big issue, or large enough that you'd take legal action against the country who saved your life. If its that bad surely even the blandest meal of bare rice or pasta and a roof over their head and safety would be a massive step up from their homeland and something they'd be massively grateful for?
    But no they're assaulting the people serving them food
    Seriously defending the indefensible


  • #49
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    This has shag all to do with the food I'd say. I heard one or two of them being interviewed recently on radio. They're all cracking up in Ballaghaderreen. Simple as. A lot of these people are from large cities that have just been bombed into rubble. They aren't used to hanging around small towns with flip all going on in them. If they can get moved to Galway or Dublin, they'll say whatever they have to to get out of dodge.

    Doesn't say a lot for Ballaghaderreen, mind, but it is what it is.


  • #50
    gctest50
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    Anyone any ideas how much the contract was worth?



    Mullen is working for Offaly-registered firm :

    Next Week & Co Limited

    who have been awarded the contract to run the refugee centre for two years.


  • #51
    Pithythefool
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    JenovaProject wrote: »
    Jacqueline Mullen, the centre manager, says the complaint was baseless and was written solely as a means of the refugees securing permanent accommodation elsewhere.

    Think people are missing this bit.
    They are only looking for free permanent housing.
    The foods not the problem.

    The food could be genuinely ****. I'd be more inclined to believe that its basic run-of-the-mill fare.

    From the personal stories I know of refugees/immigrants in general, I'd also be inclined to believe that its a case of advantages being taken. Hopefully not the case.


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  • #52
    falinn merking
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    riffmongous wrote: »
    We had our own workhouses years ago, most prominently during the famine times. I doubt anyone wants a return to that


    And those poor souls could only dream of fish fingers fried eggs and tinned salmon.


  • #53
    dxhound2005
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    Back in April the food and accommodation was fine. They had an Arabic chef. They are bored.

    http://www.shannonside.ie/news/local/roscommon/syrian-feels-arrest-ballaghaderreen/


  • #54
    SuperSean11
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    riffmongous wrote: »
    We had our own workhouses years ago, most prominently during the famine times. I doubt anyone wants a return to that

    I did junior cert history as well


  • #55
    RayM
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    I like to think that this nice old lady in Ballaghaderreen is far more representative of the average Irish person than the boring misanthropic cranks on Boards who constantly moan about refugees.


  • #56
    wakka12
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    LirW wrote: »
    We had a big refugee centre in Austria on the border to Hungary that was insanely overcrowded.
    The refugees complained about the food. Lots of people said the same about they should better be grateful.
    Then it turned out the food was disgusting sh1te that you wouldn't feed your dog. And way too little for them, families, kids and women first. Some men had to go hungry every day.
    Was pretty disgraceful.

    So yeah, it would be nice to get more details on that.

    Whatever about it being bad tasting dishes, I don't believe for a second the austrian government let refugee men starve
    Bags of oats and rice are ridiculously cheap and very filling/satiating, you could feed thousands for very little money with plain food like those
    Its fresh fruit.veg and meat is where any expense is.


  • #57
    Pithythefool
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    RayM wrote: »
    I like to think that this nice old lady in Ballaghaderreen is far more representative of the average Irish person than the boring misanthropic cranks on Boards who constantly moan about refugees.

    If there was a vote on whether to take in refugees, or just immigration in general, with adequate transparency, I'd put money that it would be a landslide against it.

    When the people of a country have no say in serious issues, it creates resentment.

    That's the Europe of today, simmering resentment across much of it. And it could have been avoided, so instead of a win-win, it will be a lose-lose.


  • #58
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    wakka12 wrote: »
    Whatever about it being bad tasting dishes, I don't believe for a second the austrian government let refugee men starve
    Bags of oats and rice are ridiculously cheap and very filling/satiating, you could feed thousands for very little money with plain food like those
    Its fresh fruit.veg and meat is where any expense is.

    https://kurier.at/meinung/kolumnen/knecht/es-ist-unfassbar-schrecklich/147.036.553


  • #59
    Dr Brown
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    I heard a refugee spokesman on the Niall Boylan show last year saying that a certain rural area in Ireland wasn't suitable for "refugees" because it didnt have a "swimming pool".

    Some of these people really are taking the piss.


  • #60
    wakka12
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    Pithythefool wrote: »
    If there was a vote on whether to take in refugees, or just immigration in general, with adequate transparency, I'd put money that it would be a landslide against it.

    When the people of a country have no say in serious issues, it creates resentment.

    That's the Europe of today, simmering resentment across much of it. And it could have been avoided, so instead of a win-win, it will be a lose-lose.

    `As far as I know the majority of Ballghderren were supportive but slightly apprehensive . But anyway its a pretty unique situation, not many of us have been put in a situation where our town would become so concentrated with so many people of a very different culture in such a short amount of time. Obviously its a skewed a little against it for this reason, if there is even any bad sentiment towards the refugees being in that town


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  • #61
    RayM
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    Pithythefool wrote: »
    If there was a vote on whether to take in refugees, or just immigration in general, with adequate transparency, I'd put money that it would be a landslide against it.

    When the people of a country have no say in serious issues, it creates resentment.

    That's the Europe of today, simmering resentment across much of it. And it could have been avoided, so instead of a win-win, it will be a lose-lose.

    Nah, step away from the internet and there are lots of nice people out there, just like that old lady in Ballaghaderreen, who aren't permanently angry and always on the lookout for some group to hate.


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